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A lot of people think that twitter could relatively easily be made profitable by significantly cutting engineering staff. http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2
by harryh 10y ago
A lot of people think that twitter could relatively easily be made profitable by significantly cutting engineering staff.
http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-twitter-buyout-rumours.html http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-...
- duaneb 10y agoYea, people miss the fail whale.
- the_watcher 10y agoPretty sure that Google or Facebook could handle the scale Twitter operates at without the same headcount.
- duaneb 10y agoIf I had google behind me, I could also leverage ridiculous technology. Both are larger than I am (and twitter is), so this is not surprising.
- harryh 10y agoThe vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.
- duaneb 10y agoIsn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.
- harryh 10y agoIsn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? No. If all twitter cared about was keeping the existing service running they could do it with 1/10th the current technical staff.